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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
To: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers, vmw_balloon.c: Determine page allocation flag can_sleep outside loop.
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:36:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201110171136.06619.dtor@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318875227.10091.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Monday, October 17, 2011 11:13:47 AM Rakib Mullick wrote:
>  In vmballoon_reserve_page function, flags has been passed from the
> callee function (vmballoon_inflate here). So, we can determine
> can_sleep outside the loop.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>

Thanks Rakib.

Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>

> ---
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
> index 053d36c..6983d80 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
> @@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ static int vmballoon_reserve_page(struct vmballoon
> *b, bool can_sleep) gfp_t flags;
>  	unsigned int hv_status;
>  	bool locked = false;
> +	flags = can_sleep ? VMW_PAGE_ALLOC_CANSLEEP : VMW_PAGE_ALLOC_NOSLEEP;
> 
>  	do {
>  		if (!can_sleep)
> @@ -419,7 +420,6 @@ static int vmballoon_reserve_page(struct vmballoon
> *b, bool can_sleep) else
>  			STATS_INC(b->stats.sleep_alloc);
> 
> -		flags = can_sleep ? VMW_PAGE_ALLOC_CANSLEEP : 
VMW_PAGE_ALLOC_NOSLEEP;
>  		page = alloc_page(flags);
>  		if (!page) {
>  			if (!can_sleep)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-17 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-17 18:13 [PATCH] drivers, vmw_balloon.c: Determine page allocation flag can_sleep outside loop Rakib Mullick
2011-10-17 18:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2011-10-17 19:31 ` David Rientjes
2011-10-17 20:10   ` Rakib Mullick
2011-10-17 20:16     ` Dmitry Torokhov

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